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Learning to govern ourselves
By: Gustavo Esteva The storm rages; cold and hurricane-force winds threaten from the north, which will be accentuated after next Friday, January 20, and a cyclone forms level with the land all over the country. There is nowhere to take…
Read MoreTalking to each other
By: Gustavo Esteva In the midst of war, as part of the general campaign of dispossession, they have also taken the word away from us, words. And that’s how they want to bury Tlataya or Ayotzinapa or make the No…
Read MoreGoverning ourselves
By: Gustavo Esteva Cornered in their alley, disconcerted and pathetic elected officials look for an exit from their impossible predicament: they cannot ignore/be unaware of, nor recognize their own disgrace, the fact that their “security forces” operated like bands of…
Read MoreEsteva: Inside Out
By: Gustavo Esteva Once in a while we get a compañero out of prison, stop the machines that come to destroy, stop a megaproject, impede a dispossession… Resorting to the law, to judicial proceedings, still produce results. But that should…
Read MoreEsteva: Disputing politics
By: Gustavo Esteva gustavoesteva@gmail.com It will be a year of intense political dispute, in the midst of war. But the dispute among the politicians will be irrelevant. What will be important is disputing politics itself, reclaiming it. On the surface,…
Read MoreEsteva: It was an atrocious year
Support Zapatista Autonomous Education! It’s anti-capitalist and anti-colonialist! (Just click on the DONATE button.) By: Gustavo Esteva gustavoesteva@gmail.com In Mexico, the moral degradation, cynicism and corruption of the political classes became more and more evident, while the combined violence of…
Read MoreSpecial Economic Zones for Southern Mexico
SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONES, AN INITIATIVE FOR DISPOSSESSION By: Angeles Mariscal, Chiapas Paralelo Destining 115 billion pesos coming from public resources in order to attract transnational and Mexican private investment to zones “with high productive potential,” sounds like dispossession. The proposal of…
Read MoreGustavo Esteva: Seedbed
SEEDBED By: Gustavo Esteva The seminar on “Critical Thought versus the Capitalist Hydra” came to an end. In the closing plenary ceremony, this Saturday, we received the news: they were repressing the compañeros in San Quintín. What we had been…
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